New player looking for SK advice

[Viczar]

<p>Hey guys, I'm fairly new to the game and I'm looking for advice on the SK class. I'm trying to find out information about the class, and how to make him as solo friendly as possible.</p><p>1) What stats should I boost? My guess is STR, STA and INT. But what should I be focusing on the most?</p><p>2) Is there any suggested AA line for soloing? I've been reading a few post about going into the INT line, is this good for soloing?</p><p>3) What are my most important skills that I should be using?</p><p>4) What kind of racials should I pick? I notice people usually say to pick the permenant ones (like +stats). Are there any really important ones I shouldn't miss?</p><p>5) What tradeskill should I choose as a SK?</p><p>6) Any general advice for a new player?</p><p>I know these questions are probably asked all the time, but these games change all the time, and I don't want to make choices based on old information. Thanks for the help, its greatly appreciated.</p><p>Viczar</p>

[Coica]

 raise INT foremost IMO. put points into the INT line 4/4/8 and starting out as a soloer you might want to put some into the other tree in whichever AA ( I cant recall at the moment) boosts your self-buff heal spell.. it will come in handy soloing most righteously! I would choose the heal or AOE spells as your master II's as you lvl up. I chose the racial skill  that gives a power regen , but thats a kerra racial trait I believe so depends on what race you choose. On my Sk alts on test and a different server than my main sk I chose armorcraft just to get some decent armor for the early lvls. after that I never really work on tradeskilling unfortunately. on my main SK i chose woodwroker for some reason, but again I never work on it  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> keep ypur important spells like AoE's and heals and your DoT to adept III if you can and get ya some salesman crates ASAP to put in house so you can always have stuff for sale on the broker. I always have stuff for sale..even on my alts. we make great farmers for gold at the higher lvl's. also keep a few different weapons on hand as you lvl up. that way you can keep your skills up in the different types available, like crush,pierce,slash. try and use slow delay weapons also.  most of our damage is from spells and you can learn to count off the weapon delay so your ato-attack gets in between casting you'll get more DPS that way. we are not a "button mashing" class if there is such a thing.. a well played SK is noticably different than a poorly played one regardless of gear. Play around with combinations of 1Handed weapons and shield in defensive VS. offensive stance and 2 handed weaponsin  offensive VS. defensive stance. you'll learn what works best in what situations. I wouldnt worry about skilling up your ranged attacks with bows, I never use one anyway at 70, but some SK's may tell you different. thats about all I can think of at the moment.  read thru as many pages of post's here on the forum and you'll get some good knowledge, even the old posts have some good stuff in them... then just play and have fun.  I solo'd a LOT up till 70 and we ROCK!!!!